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Ford & Carney now trying to salvage relationship they trashed with Mexico after falling out with Trump

Canada is trying to salvage its relationship with Mexico after falling out with Trump: analysts

MEXICO CITY – Prime Minister Mark Carney is scrambling to save his country’s relationship with Mexico after it disintegrated late last year when Canadian officials suggested they’d be better off negotiating a trade deal with the Trump administration alone.

Carney attempted to break the ice in a phone call with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum in July by complimenting an indigenous-made soccer ball she had gifted him at their last meeting and saying he hoped to visit Mexico soon.

The warm overture, relayed to Reuters by three people familiar with the call, highlights Canada’s attempt to repair the damage after a string of public slights by Canadian officials, including Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who said in November that any comparison of Canada to Mexico was “the most insulting thing I’ve ever heard.”

by Blazingcatfur•August 9, 2025August 8, 2025•0•Canada, Mexico, WTF?

Why doesn’t Canada already have a stronger relationship with Mexico?

With tensions once again heating up in Canada’s trade negotiations with the United States, and the Trump administration blaming the “elbows up” approach, Canadian officials are scrambling to build new relationships, including with one of its closest neighbours: Mexico.

The effort began at the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alta., in June, where Prime Minister Mark Carney invited Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to meet with him privately, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said from Mexico City Tuesday.

Our drug runners get along fine.

by Blazingcatfur•August 7, 2025August 7, 2025•0•Canada, Mexico

Mexico leads in Canadian traveler deaths and violent crime reports abroad

Mexico recorded more sudden deaths and violent crimes involving Canadian travelers than any other country last year, according to a federal report, despite drawing far fewer visitors than the United States.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the Department of Foreign Affairs’ Annual Consular Data Report found that 204 Canadians died suddenly while in Mexico in 2024, the highest number of any foreign destination.

by Blazingcatfur•August 4, 2025August 3, 2025•0•Canada, Mexico

Why more fentanyl production could be moving to Canada

Fentanyl Precursor Chemical 4-Piperidone

Although there’s no evidence of any significant flows of fentanyl into the United States from Canada, an American authority on “criminal supply chains” warned Friday that that could change abruptly if U.S. efforts to better seal its border with Mexico are successful.

Jonathan Caulkins, who researches supply chains that support illegal markets for the Manhattan Institute think tank and Carnegie Mellon University. said the drug cartels that control the North American fentanyl trade may well shift large chunks of their operations to Canada if the northern border becomes the path of least resistance.

by Blazingcatfur•August 3, 2025August 2, 2025•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, USA

Gringo go home! Why Mexico is turning against US immigrants

The broken glass had been swept away and, of the furious graffiti, only a faint pink stain remained on the walls outside the Starbucks — but the damage had been done.

Days earlier a mix of Mexicans and foreigners were sipping flat whites in this trendy Mexico City neighbourhood last Friday when an anti-gentrification protest descended on them.

The Starbucks customers hit the floor as a group of the protesters turned violent, throwing chairs, smashing windows and looting snacks to toss into the crowd, where people brandished signs reading “Expat = gentrifier” and “Gentrification is colonisation!”

by Blazingcatfur•July 12, 2025July 12, 2025•0•Mexico, USA, WTF?

Trump imposes 30 per cent tariffs on EU and Mexico

Donald Trump has said he will impose 30 per cent tariffs on the European Union and Mexico from next month.

The US president said both levies would take effect on August 1 as he announced the move on letters posted to his Truth Social account.

In his letter to the European Union, Mr Trump said that the US trade deficit was a national security threat.

by Blazingcatfur•July 12, 2025July 12, 2025•0•European Union, Mexico, USA

HUNTER: Drug cartel civil war has deadly implications for Canada

Four decapitated corpses hanging from a bridge are the latest symbol of a civil war tearing apart the violent global drug powerhouse, the Sinaloa Cartel.

And the bloodshed has dire implications for Canada, where the cartel has been allowed to fester and grow in a twisted branch plant endeavour to fuel the world with fentanyl.

20 bodies found in Mexico after horrific cartel violence — including 4 headless corpses hanging from bridge

by Blazingcatfur•July 1, 2025July 1, 2025•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

Sinaloa cartel hacked security cameras to track and kill FBI informants, US say

Hacker working for cartel run by Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was also able to access phone records of an FBI legal attaché at the US embassy in Mexico City

A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official’s phone records and use Mexico City’s surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency’s informants in 2018, according to a new US justice department report.

The incident was disclosed in a justice department inspector general’s audit of the FBI’s efforts to mitigate the effects of “ubiquitous technical surveillance”, a term used to describe the global proliferation of cameras and the thriving trade in vast stores of communications, travel, and location data.

by Blazingcatfur•June 29, 2025June 29, 2025•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, USA

Gunmen storm Mexican village hall and shoot dead mayor

Gunmen have killed the mayor of the Mexican municipality of San Mateo Piñas in the latest deadly attack on local officials.

Witnesses said four armed men arrived on motorcycles, stormed the village hall and opened fire on the mayor, Lilia Gema García Soto, and a local official who was in a meeting with her, Eli García Ramírez.

Two municipal police officers were also injured in the attack.

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by Blazingcatfur•June 16, 2025June 16, 2025•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

Mexico’s Gun Case Backfires

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of seven American gun manufacturers that Mexico had charged with aiding illegal gun sales to drug cartels. In the aftermath, it has somehow escaped notice that the Obama administration did the same thing, with impunity.

On a visit to Mexico in April 2009, President Obama claimed that “more than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States, many from gun shops that line our shared border. So, we have responsibilities as well.” The administration then set out to prove this claim in covert fashion.

by Blazingcatfur•June 11, 2025June 11, 2025•0•Mexico, USA

Mexican President Threatened To ‘Mobilize’ Against U.S. Two Weeks Before L.A. Riots

Just weeks before violent riots broke out in Los Angeles in defiance of immigration enforcement, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum threatened to “mobilize” against the United States after Republicans sought to tax remittances to Mexico.

One proposal in the “big, beautiful bill” would tax remittances sent by immigrants to their home country at 3.5 percent. Remittances accounted in 2023 for roughly 7.5 percent “of global remittance flows,” according to the Center for Strategic & International Studies.

by Blazingcatfur•June 10, 2025June 9, 2025•0•Camp Of The Saints, Mexico, USA, WTF?

Mexican President Says No Backing Down from Suing U.S. Gun Industry

Just one day after the U.S. Supreme Court shot down one lawsuit from Mexico’s government against various gun manufacturers, President Claudia Sheinbaum claimed that her government was moving forward with other lawsuits aimed at the gun industry.

by Blazingcatfur•June 7, 2025June 7, 2025•0•Mexico, USA

Mexico Sued the U.S. Gun Industry. Supreme Court: Absolutely Not

We all know that Mexico has become an incredibly violent place, especially over the last decade, due to a rise in cartel activity and organized crime. So, what has the Mexican government done to combat this? Well, not much, but back in 2021, it decided it would sue several gun makers and distributors here in the United States for at least $10 billion.

by Blazingcatfur•June 5, 2025June 5, 2025•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, USA

The mysterious drop in fentanyl seizures on the U.S.-Mexico border

These guys had nothin to do with it according to WAPO.

MEXICO CITY — After years of confiscating rising amounts of fentanyl, the opioid that has fueled the most lethal drug epidemic in American history, U.S. officials are confronting a new and puzzling reality at the Mexican border.

Fentanyl seizures are plummeting.

The phenomenon has received little notice in Washington, where the Trump administration has made fentanyl-trafficking cartels a national-security priority. “Narcotics of all kinds are pouring across our borders,” said a White House statement in March, announcing stiff tariffs on Mexico and Canada.

by Blazingcatfur•June 2, 2025June 1, 2025•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, USA

Cartels at Sea: The New Frontline in America’s Drug War

Once the U.S. began taking border security more seriously, the cartels simply changed direction, literally. They went around it.

The Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, vast and largely unguarded expanses of open water, have become the new superhighways of the Mexican drug trade. No more tunnels. No more coyotes bribing border agents.

by Blazingcatfur•May 20, 2025May 20, 2025•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, USA